Somethin' 'Bout a Boat

This fortnight, the New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast makes sure you don’t feel like you’re up a creek without a paddle. Your hosts, Ken and Gabe, talk about dugouts, birchbark canoes, skin boats, and portage routes in a 13000 year tour of what we know, and especially what we don’t, about watercraft. We also introduce our new producer, Emanuel Akel. Finally, we’d like to fondly remember Dick Doyle, friend and archaeologist extraordinaire. 

Check out Emanuel’s Podcast, Noize & Freeze Files, https://open.spotify.com/show/3uwx3f15B8zijkAXYlPZci?si=0960c2b904b84a89&nd=1&dlsi=79e9a10758944d87

Show Notes

Adney, Tappan, and Howard Irving Chapelle (1993). The bark canoes and skin boats of North America. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Cape Porpoise Archaeological Alliance.

Cook, David S. (1985) Above the Gravel Bar: The Native Canoe Routes of Maine. Polar Bear and Company, Solon.

Holyoke, Kenneth R., and M. Gabriel Hrynick (2015) Portages and Lithic Procurement in the Northeastern Interior: A Case Study from the Mill Brook Stream Site, Lower Saint John River Valley, New Brunswick, Canada. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 39(2):213-240.

Moran, Mallory L.( 2020) "Mehtaqtek, Where The Path Comes To An End": Documenting Cultural Landscapes Of Movement In Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) First Nation Territory In New Brunswick, Canada, And Maine, United States. PhD, Anthropology, William and Mary, Williamsburg.

Sanger, David (2009) Birchbark Canoes, Dugouts, and Gouges: Is There Any Logical Relationship? Maine Archaeological Society Bulletin 49(2):17-34.

Spahr, Tim, Arthur Anderson, Gabriel Hrynick, Gemma-Jayne Hudgell, and Arthur Spiess (2020)    A report on a late Woodland period dugout canoe from Cape Porpoise, Maine, USA. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology:1-14.

Spahr, Tim, Arthur Anderson, Gabriel Hrynick, Gemma-Jayne Hudgell, Elizabeth Kelley Erickson, Nancy Asch Sidell, and Arthur Spiess (2023)    A Late Woodland paddle in association with a dugout canoe from Cape Porpoise, Maine, USA. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 18(3):541-545.

Dick Doyle’s obit: https://www.pressherald.com/2024/01/05/obituaryrichard-a-dick-doyle-2/

Hit Pieces

Maine Archaeological Society Meeting (in Honour of Dick Doyle) is April 7, 2024 at Vile Arboretum. Check here for more updates:  https://mainearchsociety.org/

Searcy, M., K. Banks and S. Jensen (2024). Improve Your Employability: Insider Tips on Jobs in the Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Sector. The SAA Archaeological Record, 24(1): 28-35.  

Demeischel, Jenna and S. Terry Childs (2024). A collections-Based View of the Future of Archaeology. Special issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice 12(1)

Credits

Producer: Emanuel Akel

Sponsors: APANB, ULeth SSHRC Exchange, ULeth ORIS